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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Public servants want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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